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Several north-west choirs also protested at the BBC studios in Salford – see video of Open Voice, Manchester Community, Calder Valley and Bolton Clarion choirs. For the London event, marching from Portland Place to Whitehall, Strawberry Thieves put together a songsheet: 11.5.19 Palestine demo.

Comrades singing in Aberystwyth …

… and Leeds.

Many street choirs will now be gearing up for the Street Choirs Festival in Manchester from July 12th to 14th. This event, which has been running for many years, is where choirs from around the UK join together, share songs, listen to each other and, most importantly, sing out in the local streets.

You will find details of the Campaign Choirs Network annual gathering, held during the Street Choirs Festival, here.

The book Singing For Our Lives is now available. Written by the Campaign Choirs Writing Collective and launched at the 2018 Street Choirs Festival in Brighton, it documents and analyses the various political, societal and personal influences on the development of the street choirs movement over the last 40 years or more. Read a review of the book by Peace News here. And why not order your own copy from the publisher by clicking on the cover left!